Holtec Fired CFO For Flagging False Statements, Jury Told

By George Woolston

Eight New Jersey jurors were told Tuesday that nuclear equipment and services company Holtec International broke the law when it fired its chief financial officer in 2022 after he raised objections over a document drafted by the company's chief executive meant for a potential investor.

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Hess, Gunpowder Co. Resolve NJ Pollution Suits For $24M

By Carla Baranauckas

Hess and a former munitions manufacturer will collectively pay $24 million to resolve the state of New Jersey's natural resource damages claims over alleged contamination from operations spanning five industrial sites, state officials announced this week.

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Ex-FBI Analyst Says Bove Ordered Illegal Protester Probe

By Courtney Bublé

A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters.

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Ex-TD Bank Worker Admits Role In $4.8M Laundering Scheme

By Gina Kim

A former TD Bank employee pled guilty in New Jersey federal court Tuesday to accepting bribes from a co-conspirator to open fraudulent bank accounts in return for a fee, and facilitating the laundering of $4.8 million from the United States to ATMs in Colombia over a nearly two-year period.

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Couple Says NJ Pot Farm Owes $1.36M In Loans, Back Pay

By Jonathan Capriel

Multistate cannabis operator Grasshopper Farms and its CEO are accused of flaking on loans and other obligations totaling more than $1.36 million by a New Jersey couple who invited them to open a 20-acre indoor cannabis cultivation facility on their land in Galloway Township, according to a lawsuit removed to federal court.

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Calif. Tribe Says Kalshi Evades Tribal Sports Betting Bans

By Elaine Briseño

A Southern California tribe warned the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that a recent Third Circuit decision blocking New Jersey from enforcing its gambling laws against Kalshi could threaten tribes' exclusive rights to regulate gambling on their reservations.

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NJ Couple Drop Claims Against Litigation Funder In Suit

By Andrea Keckley

A couple have dropped their claims against a litigation funder in a lawsuit alleging that they were unlawfully steered into taking out high-interest loans during a lawsuit over a car crash, according to a joint filing entered in New Jersey state court on Friday.

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NJ Judge Backs Denial Of Painting Co.'s $350K Fee Bid

By Katherine Smith

A New Jersey federal judge rejected a painting company's challenge to a magistrate judge's ruling that denied its bid for a union pension fund to cover roughly $350,000 in legal fees, finding that the magistrate judge applied the correct legal standard in his findings.

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Amazon Shoppers' Tariff Refund Suits Sent To Seattle As MDL

By Rachel Riley

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has centralized a series of proposed class actions accusing Amazon of denying online shoppers tariff refunds, sending lawsuits filed in Florida, Michigan, New York and Ohio to Washington federal court for coordinated proceedings.

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Apple AirTag Stalking Defect Suits Consolidated In California

By Dorothy Atkins

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has sent nearly three dozen lawsuits alleging Apple Inc. defectively designed AirTags that were susceptible to abuse by stalkers to California's Northern District in a ruling that compared the cases to coordinated multidistrict litigation against Uber Technologies Inc. over driver sexual assaults.

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3rd Circ. Judge Faces Ethics Complaint For Managing PR Firm

By Adrian Cruz

A pair of U.S. senators from Delaware have filed an ethics complaint with the Third Circuit raising concerns over U.S. Circuit Judge Jennifer Mascott's purported operation of a public affairs agency, months after she was officially confirmed to the appellate court.

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3rd Circ. Backs Hybrid Test For Categorizing Sex Offenders

By Parker Quinlan

The Third Circuit on Tuesday joined its sister circuits and adopted a "hybrid" framework to determine a sex offender's appropriate category under a federal registry law by looking at the text of state laws used to charge an offender, and weighing facts from the case.

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LIV Golf, BC Partners Strike $300M Restructuring Deal

By Rick Archer

LIV Golf is asking a New Jersey bankruptcy judge to approve a restructuring support agreement it reached with private equity firm BC Partners, which would provide a $300 million investment in the league as it exits Chapter 11.

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Nortera Drops Green Giant Deal After Challenge From Canada

By Matthew Perlman

Nortera Foods said Tuesday it abandoned its planned purchase of the Green Giant and Le Sieur brands in Canada from B&G Foods Inc., after the country's competition enforcer challenged the deal over concerns about higher prices for canned and frozen vegetables.

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AG Watch: Texas Takes A Lone State Stand Against Tech Cos.

A look at Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's recent actions against Meta Platforms and Amazon.com illustrates how Texas is distancing itself from multistate coordination, offering practitioners a crucial perspective on navigating individual state actions amid coordinated attorney general litigation, say attorneys at Kelley Drye.

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Omni Bridgeway Raises $1B For New Litigation Funding

By Ryan Boysen

Litigation funder Omni Bridgeway has raised a new $1 billion fund from mostly repeat investors, with plans to deploy the money broadly across countries and case types while avoiding debt leverage.

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Alito Explains Recusal But Says It Shouldn't Become Practice

By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said this week he "reluctantly" recused himself from a dispute that could decide whether state and local government can sue Big Oil in state courts for damages related to greenhouse gas emissions, while suggesting the high court's members shouldn't make a practice of explaining their reasons for stepping away from cases.

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Justices' Docs Should Belong To Public, Gov't Watchdogs Say

By Jack Karp

Nearly two dozen government accountability groups are calling for Congress to enact a law that would make U.S. Supreme Court justices' papers government property that would someday be available to the public.

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California Federal Judge Jeffrey White To Retire After 24 Years

By Bonnie Eslinger

Senior U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White will retire at the end of the year after nearly a quarter-century on the federal bench in Northern California.

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ABA Accreditor Leader Remembered For Passion And Intellect

By Emma Cueto

After her sudden death while leading the American Bar Association council that handles law school accreditation, Melissa Hart is being remembered as a passionate and fiercely intelligent jurist, mentor and leader who will be missed as the council navigates numerous challenges to its accreditor status.

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